Holy Family Catholic Church

830 Main Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96818

Telephone: 422-1135 Fax:423-0389
Email: HFC830@gmail.com and Sebchacko@hawaii.rr.com
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time September 21, 2014
Mass Schedule
Monday-Saturday: 7:15 AM
Saturday Vigil: 5:00 PM

Sunday: 8:30 AM, 11:00 AM &
7:00 PM

1st SundaySamoan Mass-2 PM

3rd Sunday-Pohnpeian Mass-2 PM

Confessions Saturday:
4:004:45 PM
and after daily Masses

First Friday of the Month
Benediction
After 7:15 am Mass
WEBSITES

PARISH:
Holyfamilyhonolulu.org

ACADEMY
Hfcahawaii.org

2014 THE YEAR
OF THE
CONSECRATED
LIFE

Come Follow me.

Matthew 4:19
PASTORS CORNER

This week-end our Readings conclude with the fourth
and final homily on THINKING LIKE GOD. In our
First Reading God says through the prophet Isaiah: My
thoughts are not your thoughts. In the Second Read-
ing Paul explains how for him to live is Christ.

Saint Paul after his conversion and a life of preaching,
towards the end of his life came to think like Christ and
so it was a spiritual insight that must have led him to
make that statement.

In the Gospel we have a wonderful parable that explains
how God thinks. We mostly think like human beings and
we end up being jealous and angry with God and with
others. Many of us say; God is not fair. that is not
fair. Do we really know what is fair? Do we think fair
ourselves? Do we act fair?

The chances are, that we are not fair, but we are quick to
see how unfair others have been or are to us. One of the
reasons why some of the politicians today speak about
our fair share is because they have somehow a twisted
idea of what is fair. In my homily, I shall speak about a
great lesson I learned from a Teacher about the morality
of being fair or unfair. The little stag down stream that
drank water carefully was observed by a large elephant,
to be the cause of the reason for the water becoming
muddied and dirty. The elephant was both unreasonable
and intolerant. May the Lord help us to think like God
and act like God and to live like God.

MY THOUGHTS ARE
NOT YOUR THOUGHTS
St. Pio of Pietrelcina

In one of the largest such ceremonies in history, Pope John Paul II canonized Padre Pio of Pietrelcina on June 16,
2002. It was the 45th canonization ceremony in Pope John Paul's pontificate. More than 300,000 people braved blis-
tering heat as they filled St. Peter's Square and nearby streets. They heard the Holy Father praise the new saint for his
prayer and charity. "This is the most concrete synthesis of Padre Pio's teaching," said the pope. He also stressed Padre
Pio's witness to the power of suffering. If accepted with love, the Holy Father stressed, such suffering can lead to "a
privileged path of sanctity." Many people have turned to the Italian Capuchin Franciscan to intercede with God on
their behalf; among them was the future Pope John Paul II. In 1962, when he was still an archbishop in Poland, he
wrote to Padre Pio and asked him to pray for a Polish woman with throat cancer. Within two weeks, she had been cured
of her life-threatening disease. On September 20, 1918, as he was making his thanksgiving after Mass, Padre Pio had a vision of
Jesus. When the vision ended, he had the stigmata in his hands, feet and side. Padre Pio saw Jesus in all the sick and suffering.
At his urging, a fine hospital was built on nearby Mount Gargano. The idea arose in 1940; a committee began to collect money.
Ground was broken in 1946. Building the hospital was a technical wonder because of the difficulty of getting water there and of
hauling up the building supplies. This "House for the Alleviation of Suffering" has 350 beds. At Padre Pio's canonization Mass
in 2002, Pope John Paul II referred to that day's Gospel (Matthew 11:25-30) and said: The Gospel image of 'yoke' evokes the
many trials that the humble Capuchin of San Giovanni Rotondo endured. Today we contemplate in him how sweet is the 'yoke'
of Christ and indeed how light the burdens are whenever someone carries these with faithful love. The life and mission of Padre
Church Bulletin: EditorJoe Padron, Phone 423-2439. Bulletin deadline is Tuesday 12:00 noon. Please
email notice and picture if applicable to pad.ronjoe@gmail.com
Our Weekly Offerings
September 14, 2014

5:00 PM $ 1,059.45
8:30 AM $1,906.00
11:00 AM $1,112.85
7:00 PM $1,272.81
Funeral $200.00
GRAND TOTAL $5,551.11


Catechetical Sunday

We will honor all our Catechism Volunteer
Teachers this Sunday during the 8.30 Mass.
We thank all the parents for your diligence
and effort in educating and instructing our
Children to learn about Christ and His
Church. Thank you.

In the near future we hope to change our
WAY OF THE CROSS Stations from
wood to Stained Glass. Each frame will
cost $500. We hope to place the Tabernacle
behind the Altar. The Cost of the Tabernacle
is $5000.00. We have $3000.00 donated al-
ready. We are looking for an additional
$2000.00 The Tabernacle Panel will be
matched with a Panel of the Ten Com-
mandments. The Pictures of the Divine
Mercy and the Holy Family will also be
made of Stained Glass. They will cost
$1000.00 each. In all we hope to have this
project done for $13,000.00 Those who
are willing to donate please contact Fr
Sebastian
MARK YOUR CALENDAR

Sep. 21, Sunday-Catechetical Sunday
Sep.23-Tuesday-Meet at the Church
6:00 pm-Our Lady of Perpetual Help Devotion
6:30-Bible Sharing
Recitation of the Holy Rosary before each Mass
during the weekend and at 6:50 am Monday to
Saturday morning before the 7:15 am Mass.
Oct. 5-Sunday-Hospitality Sunday
Nov. 7-Friday-Holy Family Catholic Academy
Fall Festival

Alleluia.
Open our hearts, O Lord,
to listen to the words
of your Son.

NEW PARISHIONERS: Newcomers are encouraged to register with the parish and are welcome to par-
ticipate in all parish activities and ministries. Registration forms are available in the back of the Church.

The Spirit of Pope Francis
Stripping Off Worldliness
By Pat McCloskey, OFM

On March 13, 2013, Pope
Francis caught the worlds
attention by choosing St.
Francis of Assisi as his patron.
He quickly showed what that
means for him: riding the bus
with the cardinals back to the
Domus Sanctae Marthae
(where he has chosen to live)
and paying his own bill at the hotel where he stayed be-
fore the conclave. A few months later, he carried a small
bag onto the plane for his trip to World Youth Day in Rio
de Janeiro.
On October 4, the pope visited Assisi and, in effect, ex-
plained how St. Francis inspires him. Among his audience
were the eight cardinals who had completed the first of
several meetings to advise him about the reform of the
Roman Curia and the governance of the worldwide
Church.
At the bishops residence, in the room where Francis
stripped himself of the clothes provided by his father,
Pope Francis told a group of poor people assisted by Cari-
tas: The Christian cannot coexist with the spirit of the
world, with the worldliness that leads us to vanity, to arro-
gance, to pride. And this is an idol; it is not God. It is an
idol! And idolatry is the gravest of sins!
Pope Francis continued: And we all must strip ourselves
of this worldliness: the spirit opposing the spirit of the
Beatitudes, the spirit opposing the spirit of Jesus. Worldli-
ness hurts us. . . . Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the
soul! It kills the person! Kills the Church!
It is Gods strength that supported Francis renuncia-
tion, said the pope. It was a renunciation of the spirit of
the world, the cancer of society and the enemy of
Christ.
Reconciliation

Reconciliation, also called Confession or Pen-
ance, is a social sacrament.

Even though we are called to live as images of
Christ and share in his life, we are nonetheless
human and subject to temptation and sin. Sin dis-
rupts the relationships between ourselves and
God as well as each other and if serious enough
can even cause spiritual death. Healing and for-
giveness are extremely important to healthy life.

God in his wisdom and mercy realizes this and
has provided a means to heal any rifts in our rela-
tionships. So important is this at St Luke tells us
that Jesus' mission is "to give his people
knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness
of their sins" (Lk 1:77). The symbol used is the
words of Absolution.

Saints
Honoring the Heroes of the Church

Catholic devotion to the saints is our way of
showing respect and admiration for the memory
of those men and women who chose to surrender
their will, and sometimes their lives, to serve
God and his Church.

Here in Hawaii, we are twice blessed with the canoni-
zation of Saint Damien in 2009 and the canonization
of Saint Marianne Cope on October 21, 2012. Bishop
Larry Silva tells us that the canonization of Hawaii's
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Catholic Bible

The Bible is the great story of Gods love for his
People - a long love letter written by God to each
one of us! We, in turn, accept the Sacred Scriptures
with great love and reverence. The Roman Catholic
Church teaches us to be contextualists when we read
Scripture, that is, to read Scripture passages in con-
text, not to pick out details while paying no attention
to the whole message. The Catholic Church inter-
prets the whole message with a view to its heart and
mystery: Jesus Christ, of whom the whole Bible
speaks, even the Old Testament. Therefore we
should read the Sacred Scriptures in the faith that
gave rise to them, the same living faith of the
Church.

The Bible is a collection of books - a library - of dif-
ferent kinds of writing or different literary forms. It
is the end product of a five-step process that took
about 2,000 years. The five steps of the process are:
events, oral tradition, written tradition, editing, and
becoming canonical. The Old Testament has 46
books and the New Testament has 27 books.


Alleluia.
Let your light shine before
others that they may see
your good deeds and
glorify your heavenly Father.
Our Under-Understood Mystery of Faith
By Kristina M. DeNeve

For most of us, the Ascension is anti-climatic. It
marks the almost end of the Easter season. Be-
yond this, the Ascension means that Jesus stopped
appearing to people on earth. And, truth be told,
most of us would prefer the Ascension hadnt
happened wed much prefer to see Jesus our-
selves, today!

The Ascension is meant to be more than this. The
Ascension is critical as we cycle from death into
new life. Our lives experience ascension when
we get a new job but havent started it yet. When
we are accepted into a college, but before we
go. As we anticipate a visit from beloved ohana,
but before they arrive.

At the Ascension there is still loss, still death
happening. We are letting go of what was, of our
old life. And we are not quite at the Resurrection
and Pentecost. We are not fully experiencing new
life. Yet.

With the Ascension, we know new life is com-
ing. But, first we must transition. Transition
from death. Transition into the new life that
awaits us. This is the key, the kerygma of As-
cension-time.

Prison Ministry & Re-Integration
Faith in Action Through Forgiveness and Healing

Men and women in prison are wounded, hurting and in
need of spiritual healing. Many with self-inflicted
spiritual wounds are ostracized from ordinary life and
they are seeking the Lord Jesus who alone can recon-
cile and make new. Prison Ministry teams coordinate
the prison schedules, recruit volunteers, gather sup-
plies and facilitate training. Parish volunteers visit the
jail and spread the good news about Jesus, serve Mass,
lead prayer, Liturgy of the Word, and encourage others
to live and celebrate the faith in action through for-
giveness and healing.

Each year, the Diocese prison ministry Star Light Star
Bright program helps provide incarcerated persons and
their families a means to heal and maintain relation-
ships by sponsoring an event that reunites children
with their mothers.